Feature summary
Currently, DiscussionTools allows a user to subscribe to a section. Then most changes to a section will appear as an echo notification.
However, some edits, such as the closure of discussions by adding a template, do not currently receive a notification. I propose that these also generate a notification.
Use case(s)
Benefits
This would be helpful for getting a notification when a discussion is closed, for example in this edit.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T276497 Scale DiscussionTools to all projects | |||
| Open | None | T251207 [Epic] Scale DiscussionTools to all Wikipedias | |||
| Resolved | • ppelberg | T284489 Deploy topic subscriptions (desktop) as opt-out feature at all projects | |||
| Open | None | T314973 Improve Topic Subscription support for discussions that are merged, moved, or deleted | |||
| Resolved | Feature | matmarex | T299516 Subscribe should notify when discussions are closed using {{atop}} / {{archive top}} template |
This would usually work, but… the template {{atop}} (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Archive_top) marks up the archiver's comment with a <blockquote> for some reason, and DiscussionTools ignores comments that are marked as quotes to avoid misattributing them in case someone is actually quoting someone else's comment (e.g. using {{tqb}} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Talk_quote_block).
I think this needs to be fixed in that template.
Changes to the template were applied:
This should be fixed now (for any discussions closed in the future).
Fix to the enwiki template was reverted today due to a bug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Archive_top#Bulleted_and_numbered_lists_are_not_working